Tool time! (Hopefully)

Will the third time be a charm for Tool in San Antonio? Geez, let’s hope so.

The new date for the twice-postponed AT&T Center show is May 21. Tickets, $30-$55, just went on sale at Ticketmaster outlets. Show time is 8 p.m. Of course, lots of tickets already have been sold, and those will be honored. No word on whether progressive-metal outfit Isis remains on the bill. The band will make amends with Corpus Christi the following day. Also, the March 27 show at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi has been reset for May 22.

If and when Tool finally takes the stage, it will end two long droughts  more than four years since the band last played San Antonio (November 2002 at the Freeman Coliseum)  and more than eight months after the original Sept. 12 date was canceled when singer Maynard James Keenan came down with laryngitis.

The rescheduled date, March 26, was axed when drummer Danny Carey tore his bicep a couple weeks ago and had to have surgery. A somewhat cryptic note on www.toolband.com suggested that he was hurt playing with his dog. His injury forced the rescheduling of the entire next leg of the band’s North American tour in support of last year’s excellent CD, “10,000 Days.”

By the time they get here, It may seem like it has been that long since Tool fans have seen them.

P.S. The band will make amends with Corpus Christi the day after its San Antonio makeup date. Tool’s show at the American Bank Center, originally set for March 27, has been reset for May 22. Those tickets are also on sale now through Ticketmaster.